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Valve's fake, rigged, waste of time Progress Quest troll Portal 2 ARG
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I agree. I had planned my weekend around Portal 2 releasing sometime during the weekend, and instead I spent the whole weekend watching bars move, idling games, and trying to get potatoes (which still don't do anything). Now it looks like it may release Monday at best, which really sucks because I was hoping to spend the weekend playing. Like I said, I planned my weekend around it and then this happened.Fredescu said:
Just so we're clear, the clues I was referring to were the results from the Bathysphere puzzle (4/19/2011 = 4/15/2011) and the Gaijin Games blog entry saying "You might just help get Portal 2 released early." It was really misleading and a bad move on Valve's part.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
As I said in the other thread, the disappointment for me is that it's such a fucking shitty way to end an otherwise phenominal ARG. The whole cross game content, treasure hunting and puzzle solving premise was utter genius. I wasn't an active player in the ARG, but I loved following the story and enjoyed the content that was made available in the games I own, as well as of course potato hunting.
Then, as has been said, Valve went and turned a game into work. Monotonous, grinding, unstimulating work. All the cleverness of it's structure and community involvement has been significantly devalued, entirely because of this abysmal ending.
It's not even about the payoff. If it were about the payoff, then yeah that sucks too. A few hours early unlock really means sweet fuck all. But even if it's about 'the game', the actual discovery of challenges, and the sense of reward and accomplishment when solutions are found, they've screwed it up by having the final part nothing more than a grind.
I dont know what Valve's intentions were here. Maybe they expected stronger involvement and thought everything would go faster. In that case they fucked up. Maybe this was a means of encouraging people to play a bunch of great indy games. Well, they fucked up there too, as people are just idling, or rage quitting from the monotony of it all. The 'taters were actually doing a better job of this. Or maybe this is all just one big scam on Valve's end, and they're full of shit in claiming that there's genuine community drive input and math going on. If that's the case, then obviously they fucked up there too.
Valve done fucked up. It's their own fault people are upset with this, for better or worse reasons, and I hope they're taking notes.
Then, as has been said, Valve went and turned a game into work. Monotonous, grinding, unstimulating work. All the cleverness of it's structure and community involvement has been significantly devalued, entirely because of this abysmal ending.
It's not even about the payoff. If it were about the payoff, then yeah that sucks too. A few hours early unlock really means sweet fuck all. But even if it's about 'the game', the actual discovery of challenges, and the sense of reward and accomplishment when solutions are found, they've screwed it up by having the final part nothing more than a grind.
I dont know what Valve's intentions were here. Maybe they expected stronger involvement and thought everything would go faster. In that case they fucked up. Maybe this was a means of encouraging people to play a bunch of great indy games. Well, they fucked up there too, as people are just idling, or rage quitting from the monotony of it all. The 'taters were actually doing a better job of this. Or maybe this is all just one big scam on Valve's end, and they're full of shit in claiming that there's genuine community drive input and math going on. If that's the case, then obviously they fucked up there too.
Valve done fucked up. It's their own fault people are upset with this, for better or worse reasons, and I hope they're taking notes.
Original-Blue
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Just got home from work after going to sleep last night and going to work and not checking it at all today.
I was hoping / expecting it to be done in the next three hours but there is still 24 hours on the clock? That means it seems to be coming a full day after I expected it too... Now, the normal release for me would have been Tuesday night anyway but as it stand ill be playing portal 2 when I get home from work tomorrow at about 7pm.
That makes getting home from work tomorrow FUCKING exciting, but I came home tonight a bit excited and hoping to see it ready to go today.
Seems like things REALLY slowed down today.
And to those people saying things like "you're upset because valve is releasing it early, what is wrong with you" well, its going to be coming out on Tuesday. Seems to me the original launch date wad tuesday. Guess that means its not coming out early then... Thus, this whole thing was a farce.
I don't have the 36 potatoes so I really hope that the reward kinda sucks otherwise ill be smacking my forehead for not getting them.
If its real good, they better god damn allow people to collect them afterwards.
I was hoping / expecting it to be done in the next three hours but there is still 24 hours on the clock? That means it seems to be coming a full day after I expected it too... Now, the normal release for me would have been Tuesday night anyway but as it stand ill be playing portal 2 when I get home from work tomorrow at about 7pm.
That makes getting home from work tomorrow FUCKING exciting, but I came home tonight a bit excited and hoping to see it ready to go today.
Seems like things REALLY slowed down today.
And to those people saying things like "you're upset because valve is releasing it early, what is wrong with you" well, its going to be coming out on Tuesday. Seems to me the original launch date wad tuesday. Guess that means its not coming out early then... Thus, this whole thing was a farce.
I don't have the 36 potatoes so I really hope that the reward kinda sucks otherwise ill be smacking my forehead for not getting them.
If its real good, they better god damn allow people to collect them afterwards.
Nappuccino
Member
hamchan said:
Maybe, maybe not.
If this occurred over the weekday when they had everyone at valve to make sure any changes to the system didn't royally fuck everything up I would totally agree.
As it is, they might have decided it was better to leave it an hope that the number of ppl participating would increase since that is less risky than potentially ruining already established code
Original-Blue
Neo Member
Well that dude who kept saying his mate who worked at valve was still working on the pc version so maybe they haven't quite finished polishing it yet and really there has been no intention of releasing it early or not.hamchan said:
We'll know if it was true if there is another download and patch at or before it releases.
I really dislike that only 5.5 hours has been saved. Simply put the only thing that has affected anything and made it launch earlier was filling up the bars for the games... How boringly pathetic, and the hundreds of thousands if potatos that were collected have done jack shit it seems.
Nappuccino
Member
Original-Blue said:
I really really really doubt all those potatoes were collected. I'm pretty certain that a good number of those were just plugged in by Valve.
Original-Blue
Neo Member
Yeah that just sorta seems dodgey to me.Twig said:
Nappuccino
Member
Twig said:
Who knows. But do you really think 400,000 plus potatoes were collected by the, say 35,000 people who participated? Not to mention how consistently they were earned... The potatoes, more than anything else, seems suspicious to me.
Teknopathetic
Member
"Who knows. But do you really think 400,000 plus potatoes were collected by the, say 35,000 people who participated? Not to mention how consistently they were earned... The potatoes, more than anything else, seems suspicious to me."
36 * 35,000.
This is just using the silly 35,000 number you created, but yeah.
36 * 35,000.
This is just using the silly 35,000 number you created, but yeah.
Hey Gaf, I was wondering since the console versions leaked a few days ago, there must be technical information about their performance out right? I've not heard any, is it safe to say they're both solid start to finish? What about things like loading? Have they masked it this time around?
The reason I'm not asking in the official thread is last time I went in there were ending spoilers being discussed, even to a degree without tags, so I'd rather not risk it.
The reason I'm not asking in the official thread is last time I went in there were ending spoilers being discussed, even to a degree without tags, so I'd rather not risk it.
Nappuccino
Member
Twig said:
I suppose. However most ppl I know only have 4-5 (I know its not good to use personal experience but I honestly have encountered very few ppl with over 10 potatoes.)
OmegaDragon
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I'm curious about how much time will be deducted when Audiosurf is finished. So far the maximum has been 60 mins. So far is looks like the amount of time deducted when the bar is filled depends on how much it has sold/how much it has been played. Audiosurf is pretty old and has probably sold pretty well compared to the other completed titles.
I also really hope the Portal content stays. Seem like The Ball's content is pretty good and I think I'll get the game someday.
I also really hope the Portal content stays. Seem like The Ball's content is pretty good and I think I'll get the game someday.
matrix-cat
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We're definitely getting into the harder-to-finish games, so hopefully Audiosurf will knock a good chunk out. The 60 minute game was AAAAAAA, I believe, and Audiosurf has been out for much longer and undoubtedly has had more sales.OmegaDragon said:
It looks like people are giving up on Killing Floor, though, and I don't think it would have been finished in time even with the 5-6000 CPUs it was averaging for the last couple of days.
It is a bit disapointing that the Game didn't actually come out sooner, I could of just bought the game at best buy for far less. Oh well, at least I only payed $40 for the game.
I can somewhat understand the logic, since Killing Floor has a sizeable active player base. Unless Valve Flips some Magic switch on Monday, I am not expecting to play the game till Tuesday.
electristan
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and now the game is on store shelves. This is at Taget it seems
http://i.imgur.com/7ftMm.jpg
OR maybe this is a sign that the game will be relesed today omg omg
http://i.imgur.com/7ftMm.jpg
OR maybe this is a sign that the game will be relesed today omg omg
jakonovski
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OmegaDragon said:
Money was paid by customers who bought the games to play that content, so I can't imagine a blunder of that magnitude.
EatChildren
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electristan said:and now the game is on store shelves. This is at Taget it seems
http://i.imgur.com/7ftMm.jpg
OR maybe this is a sign that the game will be relesed today omg omg
There's going to be some sour grapes from those not in the know who buy it, get home, and learn they cant play it.
electristan
Member
JaseC said:
also that valve games at 49.99 and not 59.99 like all the games around it. not that this affects me in europe but its nice to see.
EatChildren said:
to true
iSimon said:
Is that thing broken? Says the game is coming out Wednesday.
Can't blame people for dropping out and not bothering any more though, really doubt we'll finish up all the games.
Ah well guess I'll leave Audiosurf on anyway, you never know maybe Valve will take pity on us ):
EatChildren
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MrMister said:
Yeah, not going to happen, and just more grasping at straws.
It's over.
OmegaDragon
Member
Plasma said:
Don't forgot that the weekend is over. I hope Audiosurf is completed, just to see much time is deducted. But I think it's save to say that we probably won't see any changes in the timer anymore (unless the magical potato overclock somehow happens).
Stabby McSter
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If it makes anyone feel better, I finally got all 36 potatoes. D:
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